Posted on 09/26/2023 4:37:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A record number of doctors applied to be certified to treat obesity this year amid the soaring popularity of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Nearly 1,900 doctors signed up for the annual exam this October, the medical board behind the test said, which was a 50 percent increase compared to the previous year.
Passing the exam distinguishes doctors as competent in treating obese patients and could set them on A path to rake in higher salaries.
It comes after official data showed a record 40 percent of adults are now obese in three states — West Virginia, Louisiana and Oklahoma — while every state had seen a rise in rates compared to just a decade ago.
Weight loss drug prescriptions have surged in the US with five million written last year, up 2,000 percent in 2019.
Analysts suggest this market will be worth $56billion by 2030, with doctors who have specialized in obesity medicine likely able to charge more to patients.
Data from the American Board of Obesity Medicine revealed a record number of doctors had signed up to take the exam this year.
Back in 2012 — when the accreditation scheme was set up — barely 200 doctors applied.
Healthcare workers do not need the obesity certificate in order to treat obese patients, but it can make them more competent in caring for the patients.
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But we’re supposed to pretend that the obese women and men in the TV ads all over the place are okay so we won’t violate their special rights?
How much obesity is caused by people following nutritional advice from the 1980s?
Expected to be the bee.
Too bad this is real life.
I could never make it in this field of medicine. I would tell the patients to knock off the big meals, and avoid sugar, and stop being so fat. I would be denounced as a quack.
I like the ad on AmericanThinker(might be newsmax). The slenderest of females. the gap is between her panties and her belly. It’s the hip bones that expose the space.
Simple. Take away the hopping carts they ride around on full of chips and cookies.
Here’s the secret to guaranteed weight loss: Eat Half.
My fee is based on the same principle - that’l be $350K please.
Gotta remember that doctors stop taking in money if they fix patients problems for good.
“Healthcare workers do not need the obesity certificate in order to treat obese patients, but it can make them more competent in caring for the patients.”
Nah, the real reason is they can charge the lazy more money with an MD behind their name. For regular fat folks the MD can do no more than a daily trip to the gym.
because they are, STOP EATING CRAP. No Fast Food or junk food, High Fat, moderate protein and low carb.
These medicines are the real deal. I’ve been taking Mounjaro and have lost a lot. Every fat person is intimately familiar with what causes it, telling them to “knock off the big meals, and avoid sugar, and stop being so fat” is useless advice. It’s extremely hard to fight your body which is telling you that you’re constantly starving. This medicine makes it much easier, but it’s still not easy.
Michelle Obama made $741K for making one speech.
It is clearly unfair that these people will have to work for an entire year to make that much.
Eat crap, get fat and diabetic, take drugs to deal with the symptoms of the problem. What a life.
I’m one of those who seems to gain five pounds by looking at a slice of pizza.
Imagine the side effects.
And then realize that the FDA was opposed to helpful stuff like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.
Follow the M O N E Y
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